Gift from Grandma: glass mixing bowls
August 7, 2009
While mixing up ingredients for Homemakers magazine’s Fresh Tomato Lasagna (mmm, ripe tomatoes and fresh basil, my favourite combination!) last week, I opened my drawer of too-rarely-used baking dishes and mixing bowls to pick a dish for the wet ingredients. If the recipe isn’t too large in volume, I pick my mom’s mom’s glass Pyrex mixing bowls (stamped “Made in Canada” on the bottom), bowls she used to make many many dishes, bowls with some light scoring from all the baking whipped to form within, bowls that are thick and heavy and hard to break.
Sure, I could get a set of matching plastic or ceramic bowls for a surprisingly small sum at any home store. They would be lovely. They would get used. They would chip, crack and eventually be tossed out. But grandma’s bowls stood up to everything she could dish out, so they’ll have no problem with my occasional baking whims. If anything, I’ll be hunting around antique shows (including the Odessa Antique Show, on west of Kingston this weekend) for a larger bowl to go with grandma’s set.
Do you have a favourite kitchen item, at home or at the cottage, that has stood the test of time?
Entry Filed under: Healthy food, Plastic packaging. Tags: baking, baking equipment, cooking, durable goods, glass bowls, Pyrex, storage containers.
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Kat | August 7, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I have my grandmother’s 8×8 square aluminum baking pan. I’m not sure about using aluminum, so I usually line it with parchment paper, but it reminds me of her and her house, so when she moved into assisted living it was one of the things I claimed.
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ecologicjess | August 7, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Those things are indestructible! Last weekend I was at a friend’s cottage, and they had one of those manual mixers. It was a gorgeous thing with green trim, worked perfectly in mixing up pancake batter, no batteries required!
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Mama Kaia | August 9, 2009 at 3:17 PM
I absolutely adore the old-school rectangle Pyrex containers with the glass lids – they’re the main thing I keep an eye out for at auctions and garage sales. So many funky colours! And they work perfectly for food storage, especially leftovers that need to be reheated the next day (I just reheat them in the same container). I did a “cleanse” of all my Tupperware – didn’t throw them out, but am now using them for non-food items i.e. nails, bits and pieces for scrapbooking, etc. and am working on building up my collection of these particular Pyrex containers.
I also have two sets of the coloured Pyrex bowls (the series of 5 or so, each a different colour and size), both from auctions. They’re my main kitchen prep items. In fact, I just finished using them to mix up ingredients for Homemakers Veal and Gorgonzola burgers! Yum!